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Rock is a broad term that encompasses a variety of styles of popular music that originated as rock and roll in the early 1950s in the United States and evolved into a wide range of different styles in the 1960s, particularly in that country and the United Kingdom. United. ^{1 2} It has its roots in the rock and roll of the 1940s and 1950s, coming from the combination of previous genres such as blues , rhythm and blues and country . Rock music also drew heavily from electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical music , and other sources. Rock has focused on the electric guitar , typically as part of a group consisting of singer , drummer , bass guitar, and sometimes keyboard instruments such as organ and piano . Usually, rock focuses on songs, usually in 4/4 time signature and a verse-chorus structure; however, the genre has become extremely diverse, and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music , the lyrics often focus on romantic love, but also deal with a wide range of other themes with frequent focus on the social, personal, and political. (source: Wikipedia)

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